{"id":206095,"date":"2025-02-11T01:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/gut-bacteria-can-alter-brain-proteins-new-glycosylation-method-uncovers-link"},"modified":"2025-02-11T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:07:24","slug":"gut-bacteria-can-alter-brain-proteins-new-glycosylation-method-uncovers-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/gut-bacteria-can-alter-brain-proteins-new-glycosylation-method-uncovers-link","title":{"rendered":"Gut bacteria can alter brain proteins: New glycosylation method uncovers link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-bacteria-can-alter-brain-proteins-new-glycosylation-method-uncovers-link.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology\u2014in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg researchers shows that gut bacteria can bring about profound molecular changes in one of our most critical organs\u2014the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41594-025-01485-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i><i>Nature Structural &amp; Molecular Biology<\/i>,<\/i> is the first to show that bacteria living in the gut can influence how proteins in the brain are modified by carbohydrates\u2014a process called glycosylation. The study was made possible by a new method the scientists developed\u2014DQGlyco\u2014which allows them to study glycosylation at a much higher scale and resolution than previous studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology\u2014in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg researchers shows that gut bacteria can bring about profound molecular changes in one of our most critical organs\u2014the brain. The new study, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}